Dirk Koopman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
> Err, Z80 assembler?
DK> Which? BPQ is pure 8086 assembler (runs on a PC :-), TheNet
DK> 1.0 is written in C (with the aforementioned German comments
DK> and variable names) with Z80 assembler stubs to handle the
DK> hardware. I have no idea what NETROM was written in.
Before we forget, 8080/Z80 assembly source could be mechanically translated to
8086 assembly source. DOS contains CP/M backward compatibility features to
facilitate this, and many important programs -- particularly WordStar 2.2 --
were ported to 8086 MS-DOS largely by mechanical translation. Even a cursory
reading of the WordStar 2.2 8086 binary would immediately convince anyone that
it could not have been written by a human.
Furthermore, this stuff is still with us today. Even under OS/2 and NT,
issuing "call 0005h" still works! This sort of CP/M compatibility may seem
vaguely absurd today, but it is hard to get rid of once present.
-- Mike
